Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Abbreviations xi
4. Introduction. Fashions Past 1
5. Part I. The Dress of the Year
6. Chapter 1. Modern Fashion and Comparative Contemporaneity 35
7. Chapter 2. Portrait Historicism and the Dress of the Times 77
8. Part II. The Fictions of Serial History
9. Chapter 3. Hume, Historical Succession, and the Dress of Rousseau 129
10. Chapter 4. Historical Novelty and Serial Form 161
11. Chapter 5. Walter Scott’s Fashion Systems 203
12. Chapter 6. William Godwin and the Objects of Historical Fiction 238
13. Coda. Beautiful Historical Experience 278
14. Notes 285
15. Bibliography 337
16. Index 353
17. Acknowledgments 361